Sawyer

Sawyer is the 718th most common surname in the United States, shared by 46,929 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,369.

By the numbers

People: 46,929
Rank: 718th
How common: 1 in 6,369
Per 100,000: 15.7

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

As an English occupational surname, from sawyer (“one who saws”). Senses loaned from various languages include Jewish/German Seger and Sager, Slovene Žagar.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sawyer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.5%
Black, not Hispanic 13.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Sawyer

Connie Sawyer (1912–2018)American actress

People named Sawyer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sawyer

Also a first name

Sawyer has been given to 84,176 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2015. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.